Amy Dryer
My gestural style – characteristic of German Expressionism – emphasizes the subjective expression of inner experiences. The truest picture of a moment – the figure of a place – occurs in a balanced abstraction of everyday perspectives. To convey this I combine line, form and colour to represent and yet slightly distort my subject matter. This creates a field of view that is both familiar and enigmatic.
St. Michael's with an Orange Sky, 36"h x 30' w, oil on canvas $3800
In Flight, 48"h x 36"w, oil on canvas - SOLD
Shrimp Hours, 48"h x 36"w, oil on canvas - $4800
Shoreline, 30"h x 36'w, oil on canvas $3800
Amy Dryer Bio
Amy Dryer attended the Alberta College of art and design, the Glasgow school of art (Scotland) and the fine art program at Mount Alison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, to receive her bachelor of fine arts. In 2008, she was on the cover of Avenue magazine as Calgary‘s best and then was featured again in their 2016 top 40 under 40 issue. She’s also been profiled in Essential magazine, Galleries West and on CTV.
In 2025 she was featured on Jeff Humphreys ‘s podcast ‘The Calgary Sessions’. She’s completed Artist residencies at Emma Lake, Saskatchewan, in 2009, the Banff Centre, Alberta, in 2013, Reykjavík, Iceland, in 2017, and Berlin, Germany, in 2018. Amy’s paintings are in a number of private collections in New York, Barbados, California, Nantucket, and the Czech Republic. Dryer‘s work also hangs in public collections at Dalhousie University, the National home office of the Royal Society of Canada and Ottawa and the Alberta foundation for the arts collection. Amy is based in Calgary Alberta.